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- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 days ago:
Depends on the use case. If its just to be a piece to fill the spot and nothing else, yes. That said, assets impact tone and gameplay, and if you’re trying to judge how something will feel or play, then sometimes you need something closer to the given use case. For example, if you have a survival horror game and are trying to judge the ambiance and visibility of an in-progress level, using wildly out of place assets will mess with the tone, and may result in difficulty in judging factors like the visibility of gameplay elements. Like was said before, the same role as stock assets and programmer art.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 days ago:
Stock assets (at least if you need more than the absolutely basics) cost quite a bit. Programmer art can work, but if you want something close to the tone of the finished product, still takes time and thus money. Slop is quick and free.
Frankly, given the fact that placeholder assets are literally meant to be utilitarian, disposable, “just good enough” work, it’s actually not a terrible use case. Placeholders are meant to be slop either way, so not much is lost by automating it, so long as it is actually removed after.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 2 days ago:
Unfortunately, thats only true for the, “Please sign in to confirm you’re not a bot.” gate. The age gate is a separate system, that blocks on a per-video rather than per-user basis.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 3 days ago:
The age restricted videos like what OP asked about are unfortunately pretty common with topics like history, or games - anything that may have any amount of violence. So far as I know, the only way to bypass them is by proxy.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 3 days ago:
There do appear to be a couple services that use their own accounts (see here), but in general, that was my understanding too.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 3 days ago:
I’ve found that works with the “Are you a bot?” blocks, but never the age restrictions.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 3 days ago:
Unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t appear to work. Image
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 3 days ago:
Unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t appear to: Image
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 3 days ago:
Is it regional or something? Videos are still blocked for me:
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 3 days ago:
Tested it, and can second that this does technically work.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 3 days ago:
Still requires you to log in.
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 4 days ago:
Its a bloodline, or a religion, or an ethnicity, depending on the context. In the case of the person telling you that you’re Jewish, they likely were thinking of the religion, but clearly had absolutely no idea what they were talking about.
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 4 days ago:
The Bible starts to fall apart very quickly if you interpret everything as universal and literal. Generally, people trying to understand the Bible will view it as a collection of historical documents, written by different people, to different people, at different times. For example, its pretty much universally understood that rules against eating pork were specifically for Jews, and possibly even for that time period only. In terms of the “pro-life” stuff, the Bible doesn’t really even say anything about it apart from a song that references conception poetically, although it does notably include instructions on how to perform an abortion so… and for the homophobia, its much more intensely debated because of both the historical context, and the wishy-washy language within the Bible itself.
- Comment on I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back. [Tom Scott; 1:40] 5 days ago:
He was running out of ideas, and just needed a break after doing a decade of weekly, main-channel videos. His goodbye video is here.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 week ago:
Watched through the video, and you’re right. Based on the video, Nvidia’s original statements were, for all intents and purposes, lies. Ironically, since it does seem to be based on the existing DLSS stack (from what I’ve seen), it does have access to things like depth map, it just doesn’t use it. I’ll edit my prior comments.
That said, as I originally said, none of this matters anyway. This technology doesn’t run on desktop hardware. They announced a “”“gaming”“” software that can’t run on gaming hardware. It doesn’t matter what it looks like, because you can’t play games with it. Frankly, at this point, I doubt they’ll even release it.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 week ago:
Yes, but what the tech costs to implement has a huge impact on what it is, and how (or if) its ever implemented. So far as I can tell from my own research, the original commenter was lying, which makes sense. If it actually increased dev time that much, even Nvidia wouldn’t be stupid enough to try and sell it. “AI graphics costs $10 million dollars to implement, and has negligible impact on sales.” would not look good for their bubble.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 week ago:
The inputs from everything Nvidia has said, are simply the final pixel colour values and motion vector information.
If it is the same as DLSS 4 Super Resolution, it seems to use motion vectors, colour buffers, depth buffers, and camera information like exposure. That said, this might change, as, like I said, they’re showing off something they haven’t even got running on the target hardware. Its clearly not even close to being a finished product.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 week ago:
Yes, depending on implementation details. I mean, its never going to be completely consistant, but I don’t expect these companies to mind a little brand damage if they get short-term boost in invest.
I’m more thinking that as it stands, the hardware requirements make it DOA for users. They’re saying they’ll improve it, although I have my doubts. That said, even if no one can run it, it may be popular among publishers for screenshots and marketing. On the other hand, if it does actually double dev costs, then it’ll be DOA even for corporate use.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 week ago:
Its more an argument against the, “artisit’s intent” and “disrupting gameplay” points. As I said, the feature is dumb not because it “looks like AI”.
Yes, let’s double (or more) the workload of artists and programmers
Do you have any evidence for this? Given whats been shown, this seems relatively easy to implement on the game dev side.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 week ago:
From my understanding, it may be possible to work around some of this, since the program is meant to hook into the game in a number of different ways. Its very possible that an “importance” mask could be added as in input, for example. This wouldn’t fix everything, but would still give a way to separate game elements from environmental details.
That said, theres been so much focus on how it looks. IMO, its completely overblown, especially when all of this needs to be manually configued on a game-by-game basis. Devs can tweak the settings to their own preferences, and make things more or less extreme.
The part thats much more worthwhile of mockery is the fact that they’re demoing a consumer product on professional grade hardware, during a hardware shortage. They couldn’t even get the demo working on a high-end gaming PC, and they think this tech is worth advertising? That is the funny part of all this.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 2 weeks ago:
Yes, there’s a huge difference between selling something with transparent pricing versus offering it as a gambling prize.
The issue is not the price, it’s the addictive gambling mechanic. It’s not about making sure steam doesn’t rip people off, it’s about making sure steam doesn’t get kids addicted to gambling.
Yes, exactly my point. Whether you paid previously, and whether its available without gambling has no impact on the definition of gambling is or if it is bad.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 2 weeks ago:
I mean, currently Counter Strike already has (had?) an ESRB M rating, as did TF2. Dota isn’t rated, but would clearly also be M, given abilites like Rupture. Do you think we just need to reduce the normalization of it?
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 2 weeks ago:
Bought from valve directly? Because I don’t think saying you can buy the skin from the Steam marketplace for $1,000 is the slam dunk argument you think it is.
Technically, yes, bought from them directly, but I’m not sure how that distinction matters one way or another.
Either way, you either spend about $1000 on lootboxes, gambling to get it, or you buy it from another player for about that much. Given that the value is player set, the price will be in the same ballpark either way. You can argue that the price is absurd and abusive, but thats an argument against high prices on worthless digital items, not one against lootboxes.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 2 weeks ago:
Honest question I’m curious to hear peoples opinions on: Gambling is obviously dangerous, and I think we can all agree that exposing kids to it easly is bad. At the same time, for any form of virtual gambling, how do you ensure that kids can’t access it without putting a significant limit on adults’ freedoms? Like, Lemmy is very pro-privacy, but would this be a case where the (few) merits of ID based verification would be justified, or should we be just be banning all gambling outside of designated casinos, or…
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 2 weeks ago:
Secondary argument: if you buy a game, you shouldn’t have to gamble to get the game’s content.
This one doesn’t apply to Valve’s games, both because the base games are free and because the items can be bought directly. Other games though…
- Comment on Three questions about California AB1043 C. 675 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for the help understanding this.
- Comment on Three questions about California AB1043 C. 675 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but only insomuch as laws that protect minors impose additional constraints on those who have “actual knowledge” that a user is actually a child.
So, if I understand right, basically they assume its correct unless given significant evidence otherwise? So like, if this flag is enabled and I visit a website and don’t directly provide personal information, then they have to assume I am a child under CCPA and thus can’t share my data. Right?
Statr law can expand upon federal law but not contradict. And it smells like AB1043 is more “add a more explicit signal of user age” than anything affecting data retention relating to children.
What part do you think is contradictory?
I was wondering more if they could just argue that it isn’t an reliable metric and thus was ignored for COPPA if it ever came up in Federal court - esspecially if adults end up using the flag for CCPA or Civil Code protections.
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- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 3 weeks ago:
So there isn’t really a good option, other than buying an off-the-shelf mesh system?
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